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\title{Parallel Interior Point Solver for Structured Linear Programs}
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\name{Deyi Zhang
\address{Graduate Program of Operation Research and Industrial Enginnering
\\ The University of Texas at Austin
\\ Austin, TX 78712}

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\section{Proposal}
\label{sec:proposal}

\mypar{Motivation} 
The first task is to motivate what you do.  You can
start general and zoom in one the specific problem you consider.  In
the process you should have explained to the reader: what you are doing,
why you are doing, why it is important (order is usually reversed).

\mypar{Related work} 
Next, you have to give a brief overview of
related work. For a paper like this, anywhere between 2 and 8
references. Briefly explain what they do. In the end contrast to what
you do to make now precisely clear what your contribution is.

\mypar{Organization of the Paper}
Give a short one paragraph overview of the paper, like: In
Section~\ref{sec:background} we provide the background on the the
discrete Fourier transform and its most important fast algorithms
including their detailed cost analysis. In ...


\section{Background}\label{sec:background}

Here you should give a short, self-contained summary of necessary
background information. For example, assume you present an
implementation of FFT algorithms. You could organize into DFT
definition, FFTs considered, and cost analysis. The goal of the
background section is to make the paper self-contained for an audience
as large as possible. As in every section
you start with a very brief overview of the section.

\subsection{Discrete Fourier Transform}

Precisely define the transform so I understand it even if I have never
seen it before.


\subsection{Cost Analysis}

First define you cost measure (what you count) and then compute the
cost. Ideally precisely, at least asymptotically. Also state what is
known about the complexity about your problem (including citations).

\section{Method}\label{sec:method}

Now comes the ``beef'' of the paper, where you explain what you
did. Again, organize it in paragraphs with titles. As in every section
you start with a very brief overview of the section.

For this class, explain all the optimizations you performed.


\section{Evaluation}\label{exp}

Here you evaluate your work using experiments. You start again with a
very short summary, and then you explain the experimental setup
(platforms, how you implemented it, versions of relevant software,
etc.). ``Experimental setup'' is a good choice for first paragraph.

{\bf You have to}
\begin{itemize}
\item Follow the guide to benchmarking presented in class in lecture
16, in particular
\item Very readable, attractive plots (do 1 column, not 2 column plots
for this class), proper readable font size.
\item every plot answers a question, which you pose and extract the
answer from the plot in its discussion
\end{itemize}

Every plot should be discussed (what does it show, which statements do
you extract).

\section{Contribution}

Here you need to summarize what you did and why this is
important. {\em Do not take the abstract} and put it in the past
tense. Remember, now the reader has (hopefully) read the paper, so it
is a very different situation from the abstract. Try to highlight
important results and say the things you really want to get across
such as high-level statements (e.g., we believe that .... is the right
approach to .... Even though we only considered the DFT, the
.... technique should be applicable ....) You can also formulate next
steps if you want.

\section{Further comments}

Here we provide some further tips.

\mypar{Further general guidelines}

\begin{itemize}
\item For short papers, to save space, I use paragraph titles instead of
subsections, as shown in the introduction.

\item It is generally a good idea to break sections into such smaller
units for readability and since it helps you to (visually) structure the story.

\item The above section titles should be adapted to more precisely
reflect what you do.

\item Each section should be started with a very
short summary of what the reader can expect in this section. Nothing
more awkward as when the story starts and one does not know what the
direction is or the goal.

\item Make sure you define every acronym you use, no matter how
convinced you are the reader knows it.

\item Always spell-check before you submit (to me in this case).

\item Be picky. When writing a paper you should always strive for very
high quality. Many people may read it and the quality makes a big difference.

\item Books helping you to write better: \cite{Higham:98} and \cite{Strunk:00}.

\item Conversion to pdf (latex users only): 

dvips -o conference.ps -t letter -Ppdf -G0 conference.dvi

and then

ps2pdf conference.ps
\end{itemize}

\mypar{Graphics} For plots that are not images {\em never} generate
jpeg, gif, bmp, tif. Use eps, which means encapsulate postscript. It
scalable since it is a vector graphic description of your graph. E.g.,
from Matlab, you can export to eps.

Here is an example of how to get a plot into latex
(Fig.~\ref{fftperf}). Note that in this plot the text should be
larger. In particular, the labels are too small!

\begin{figure}\centering
  \includegraphics[scale=0.38]{dft-performance.eps}
  \caption{Performance of four single precision implementations of the
  discrete Fourier transform. The operations count is roughly the
  same. {\em The labels in this plot are too small.}\label{fftperf}}
\end{figure}



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